10. because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me,nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
11. “Why did I not die at birth,and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
12. Why did the knees welcome me,and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
13. For now I would be lying down and would be quiet,I would be asleep and then at peace
14. with kings and counselors of the earthwho built for themselves places now desolate,
15. or with princes who possessed gold,who filled their palaces with silver.
16. Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant,like infants who have never seen the light?
17. There the wicked cease from turmoil,and there the weary are at rest.
18. There the prisoners relax together;they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19. Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
20. “Why does God give light to one who is in misery,and life to those whose soul is bitter,
21. to those who wait for death that does not come,and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
22. who rejoice even to jubilation,and are exultant when they find the grave?
23. Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,and whom God has hedged in?
24. For my sighing comes in place of my food,and my groanings flow forth like water.